Exceptional Results
This page provides details of a selection of works of art which achieved exceptional results in our past auctions. Select an artwork below for further details. All posted results include Buyer's Premium.
PAUL PEEL
The Young Gleaner
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1888 lower left
33 x 23.25 ins ( 83.8 x 59.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00
Price Realized $408,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
MARC-AURÈLE DE FOY SUZOR-COTÉ
Magdalena (Méditation), 1921
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1921 lower right
41.5 x 41.5 ins ( 105.4 x 105.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $225,000.00 - $275,000.00
Price Realized $384,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
EMILY CARR
Logged Land
oil on paper laid on canvas
signed “M.E. Carr” lower right; signed and titled on a label on the reverse
23 x 34.75 ins ( 58.4 x 88.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $275,000.00 - $325,000.00
Price Realized $377,600.00
Sale date: May 29th 2018
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Summer Lake
acrylic on canvas
signed “Jack Bush - Toronto”, titled and dated January 1973 on the reverse
49.75 x 68.25 ins ( 126.4 x 173.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $100,000.00 - $150,000.00
Price Realized $310,500.00
Sale date: May 29th 2014
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Pink on Red (Thrust)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1961 lower left; signed “Jack Bush - Toronto”, titled and dated on the reverse
79 x 79.25 ins ( 200.7 x 201.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $175,000.00 - $225,000.00
Price Realized $299,000.00
Sale date: May 29th 2014
JEAN PAUL LEMIEUX
Basse messe, dimanche
oil on canvas
signed, titled “Basse Messe” and dated 1983 lower left; inscribed “Dimanche” on the stretcher
39 x 92 ins ( 99.1 x 233.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300,000.00 - $500,000.00
Price Realized $330,400.00
Sale date: November 19th 2019
NORVAL MORRISSEAU
Animal Unity
acrylic on canvas
signed in syllabics lower right
50 x 108 ins ( 127 x 274.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Price Realized $312,000.00
Sale date: June 15th 2022
ARTHUR LISMER
Lake Superior-Pic Island
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and inscribed “$75” on the reverse
12.5 x 16 ins ( 31.8 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Price Realized $312,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
JAMES WILSON MORRICE
À Venise (Study for “Red Houses, Venice”)
oil on wood panel
signed lower left; titled and inscribed “J.W. Morrice”, “Bordeaux”, “chez M. Guichardaz 29 Rue T. Dragon”, “G. Lege...” on the reverse; stamped “Emilio Aikelin/Via 22 Marzo N. 2578/Venezia” (inversed) on the reverse; inscribed “Morrice. 2.” on a P. Ferret label on the reverse (stamped faintly “Salon de Bordeaux 1911”
13 x 9.25 ins ( 33 x 23.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $90,000.00 - $120,000.00
Price Realized $312,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
RITA LETENDRE
Rencontre enflammée
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1962 lower right; titled on three labels on the reverse
84 x 42 ins ( 213.4 x 106.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $250,000.00 - $350,000.00
Price Realized $312,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
JAMES EDWARD HERVEY MACDONALD
On Montreal Lake, Algoma
oil on board
signed, titled and inscribed “October 1919” and “To Lillian Edie, Wishing Her a Happy New Year, 1929” on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $80,000.00 - $100,000.00
Price Realized $288,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Le Boulanger, Baie-Saint-Paul, circa 1925
oil on canvas
signed lower left
21 x 26 ins ( 53.3 x 66 cms )
Auction Estimate: $200,000.00 - $300,000.00
Price Realized $288,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
FREDERICK HORSMAN VARLEY
Lynn Valley, B.C.
oil on canvas on board
signed lower left; signed and inscribed “B.C. Landscape” and Varley Inventory No. 53 on a label on the reverse
20 x 24 ins ( 50.8 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00
Price Realized $288,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
EMILY CARR
European Street Scene
watercolour
signed and dated 1911 lower left
15 x 10.75 ins ( 38.1 x 27.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $150,000.00 - $175,000.00
Price Realized $276,000.00
Sale date: November 23rd 2017
GUIDO MOLINARI
Série noir/blanc
acrylic on canvas
signed and dated “11/67” on the reverse
81 x 68 ins ( 205.7 x 172.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $200,000.00 - $300,000.00
Price Realized $264,000.00
Sale date: June 15th 2022
Previous Auctions
Select from a list of previous auctions to view specific sale highlights.
- Modern & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- British & Continental Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- Toronto: Represented and Abstracted (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- Auction to Benefit NSCAD (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- Artwork from a Private Collection (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 7, 2023
- Select Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 10, 2023
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 10, 2023
- Little Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 10, 2023
- Prints & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 12, 2023
- Still Life & Figural Work (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 15, 2023
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 15, 2023
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Historical Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 25, 2023
- Modern & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- The Art of Europe (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- Canadians at Home & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 27, 2023
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art (Session 1)
- Sale Closed: June 8, 2023
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- Artwork from an Important Private Collection (Session 2)
- Sale Closed: June 8, 2023
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- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- Art of Quebec (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- The Group of Seven & Their Associates (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 30, 2023
- April Abstractions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- Prints, Photography & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- Select Canadian Prints (Online Auctions)
- Sale Closed: April 18, 2023
- Inuit & First Nations Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 21, 2023
- Peaks to Prairies: Art of Western Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 21, 2023
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 21, 2023
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 28, 2023
- Three Dimensions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 28, 2023
- Canada & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 28, 2023
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 31, 2023
- Canadian Winter (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 31, 2023
- Still Life & Figural Work (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 31, 2023
- Books & Reference (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 31, 2023
- From the Estate of William Ronald (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: January 31, 2023
- Holiday Charm (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 13, 2022
- Coast to Coast (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 13, 2022
- An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art (Session 2)
- Sale Closed: December 1, 2022
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- Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art (Session 1)
- Sale Closed: December 1, 2022
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- Canadian Group of Painters (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 22, 2022
- Fall Auction of International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 22, 2022
- Post-War & Contemporary Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 22, 2022
- Historical Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 22, 2022
- October Abstractions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 25, 2022
- Little Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 25, 2022
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 25, 2022
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 25, 2022
- La belle province (Art of Quebec) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 27, 2022
- Prints, Photography & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 27, 2022
- Inuit & First Nations Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 27, 2022
- Canadians at Home & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 23, 2022
- Prints & Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 23, 2022
- Still Life & Figural Work (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 23, 2022
- The Art of Barbara Mercer (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 23, 2022
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 19, 2022
- Cities & Towns (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 19, 2022
- Art of Atlantic Canada (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 19, 2022
- Spring Auction of International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 28, 2022
- From the Estate of Robert Markle (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 28, 2022
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: June 15, 2022
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- Historical Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 31, 2022
- Post-War & Contemporary Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: May 31, 2022
- April Abstractions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 19, 2022
- Prints, Photography & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 19, 2022
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: April 19, 2022
- Inuit and First Nations Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 22, 2022
- Celebrating Women Artists (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 22, 2022
- Canada & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 1, 2022
- Three Dimensions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 1, 2022
- Works on Paper & Prints (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: March 1, 2022
- Post War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 1, 2022
- Canadian Winter (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 1, 2022
- Still Life & Figural Work (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: February 1, 2022
- Works on Paper, Books & Tapestries (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 14, 2021
- Holiday Charm (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 14, 2021
- Coast to Coast (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: December 14, 2021
- Canadian Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 30, 2021
- Fall Auction of International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 30, 2021
- Auction to Benefit the Art Gallery of Alberta (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: November 30, 2021
- Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: November 22, 2021
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- October Abstractions (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 26, 2021
- Little Pictures (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 26, 2021
- The Canadian Landscape (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: October 26, 2021
- Indigenous & Inuit Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 28, 2021
- Prints, Photography & Multiples (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 28, 2021
- Art of Quebec: La belle province (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: September 28, 2021
- Prints of Sampson Matthews (& Related Work) (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 17, 2021
- Books & Reference (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 17, 2021
- Canadian & International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: August 17, 2021
- People & Places (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 20, 2021
- Prints & Works on Paper (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: July 20, 2021
- Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 24, 2021
- Spring Auction of International Art (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 24, 2021
- Canadians at Home & Abroad (Online Auction)
- Sale Closed: June 24, 2021
- Spring Live Auction of Important Canadian Art
- Sale Closed: June 9, 2021
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